Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Things are electric. If we don't make up our minds on what we are going to do ... there will be pandemonium. Of course, if we do there may also be pandemonium.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

The capitalist society is very disorderly. The variance is great and may be on the basis of ability, luck, all sorts of happenstance, external circumstances. That upsets people's sense of order.

The 21st century does not like tidy minds.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.

The order I found was the order of disorder